On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > It won't wipe away the table. It will just let you edit the existing > table interactively, through a series of questions like: > > - Do you want to edit partition 1? > - Do you want to edit partition 2? > - Do you want to edit partition 3? > - Do you want to edit partition 4? > - Do you want to change the active partition? > - Do you want to save your changes to the disk?
# df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 35082074 1147642 31127868 4% / devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc # fdisk -u fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/da0: No such file or directory # ls -ald /dev/da0* crw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 12 Jul 28 15:56 /dev/da0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 13 Jul 28 15:56 /dev/da0s1 crw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 18 Jul 28 08:56 /dev/da0s1a crw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 19 Jul 28 15:56 /dev/da0s1b crw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 20 Jul 28 15:56 /dev/da0s1c truss indicates that fdisk may be getting the error from somewhere else: stat("/dev/da0",0xbfbfeb30) = 0 (0x0) open("/dev/da0",0x2,00) ERR#1 'Operation not permitted' open("/dev/da0",0x0,027757765630) = 6 (0x6) open("/dev/da0s1",0x2,01001210100) ERR#1 'Operation not permitted' open("/dev/da0s2",0x2,01001210100) ERR#2 'No such file or directory' open("/dev/da0s3",0x2,01001210100) ERR#2 'No such file or directory' open("/dev/da0s4",0x2,01001210100) ERR#2 'No such file or directory' Because it is using devfs, I'm not able to create these missing slices in /dev. Most unfortunately, it appears it uses devfs in single user mode as well, so I can't test the theory. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"